Quotes by Taylor Swift

You can draw inspiration from anything. If youre a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody youre casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

Im typically single. Im the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

I dont like to feel like Im in a club when Im in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When youve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if its a green light.

The Story of Us is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, Is this killing you? Because its killing me. But I didnt. Because I couldnt. Because we both had these silent shields up.

In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you dont recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I dont know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

I can imagine its hard to make a relationship last. I wouldnt know.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when youre 16 can mirror the one you have when youre 26. Life repeats itself.

If I think too hard about a relationship, Ill talk myself out of it.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether its poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest hes ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and thats great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

“As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons. And sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be full and the mantle would be a little more empty.”